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Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1688-6
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248 pages
October 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Series Editor's Preface.

List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Visualising Culture across the Edges of Empire.

(Mary Roberts and Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones).

1. Commemorating the Empire: From Algiers to Damascus.

(Zeynep Çelik).

2. Out of the Earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty?.

(Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby).

3. Cultural Crossings: Sartorial Adventures, Satiric Narratives and the Question of Indigenous Agency in Nineteenth-Century Europe and the Near East. (Mary Roberts).

4. "Oriental" Femininity as Cultural Commodity: Authorship, Authority and Authenticity. (Reina Lewis).

5. The Sweet Waters of Asia: Representing Difference/Differencing Representation in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul. (Frederick N. Bohrer).

6. The Work of Translation: Turkish Modernism and the "Generation of 1914". (Alastair Wright).

7. Stolen or Shared: Ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum.

(Sally MacDonald).

8. Andalusia in the Time of the Moors: Regret and Colonial Presence in Paris, 1900. (Roger Benjamin).

Bibliography (Hannah Williams).

Index.

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